Wednesday, October 1, 2014

A Bag of Hammers

          If you only listen to one thing I say, listen to this: watch this movie. Get on your Netflix account or however you watch movies, search "A Bag of Hammers" and watch the movie. At least throw me a bone and watch the trailer here

          BUT, before you do anything, (watch the trailer, read on, read about it somewhere else), if you plan on watching this, I'd recommend going into it blind. No spoilers, no summaries, no reviews, no nothin'.
A Bag of Hammers Movie Poster #2. IMDb. Web. 1 Oct. 2014.

          Summary: 
          (Highlight the grey text boxes SPOILER with your mouse to see spoilers if you dare)

          The movie opens up with two friends at a funeral. Ben and Alan are their names, boosting cars is their game. Alan has a sister, Melanie, that works as a waitress while she attends school. Aside from taking cars like I do when I play GTA, Ben and Alan also rent out a house. This is worth mentioning because this is how they meet Lynette and Kelsey; a mother (Lynette) and son (Kelsey) that have landed on hard times. Despite her search, Lynette is unable to find a job, and being at the end of her rope, she decides to take her own life. Ben and Alan come across Lynette's body some time later and decide that the best option is to care for Kelsey themselves. They clean the house that the two were staying in and erase any trace of Kelsey, allowing them to move him into their house and care for him. It is revealed later that Ben and Alan both have been on their own for quite some time, but they've always had each other while Kelsey now has no one. Ben and Alan then have to figure out how to take care of Kelsey, and all the problems that come with it.

          In my own opinion, this is an incredible movie. There's quite a lot of comedy and jokes in this movie, which hits my fancy right there, but there's also a serious side to it. 

          And if you've read all this, you're already most of the way there. So just go watch the movie.

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